Antedating of "Money Shot" in Volokh Conspiracy

[Wilson Gray]

So, the next time that some young pepper greets me with "What it is,
granddad?", I should reply with, "It is what it is, boy"?

I'm down with that. Should have thought of it myself. Sounds hip.

-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Fascinating stuff.  I know that Eugene Volokh is very interested in etymology.  One of the postings, if accurate and not a joke, provides an antedating of OED:
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> I can turn that one back to golf, too. Arnold Palmer's Golf Book, 1961:
> "In low-scoring, high-money tournaments, your drive becomes the money shot."
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> Fred Shapiro
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> See:
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> for discussions of "romanette," "opening the kimono", "getting to the short strokes" (is it from golf, painting, or doing the dance with no steps?), "money shot" (when Katie Couric used the phrase on the Today Show, was she alluding to a porn movie?)
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